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I’m apartment hunting. Floor plans are important to me. One complex I’m researching online is obviously overhauling their website and does not have images available online- so I fill out the request form and ask if a floor plan can be emailed to me. The following is 100% true and word for word (minus identifying [...]

Today I decided to give my closet a massive heave-ho. Maybe once every couple years or so this mood hits, and I really purge out stuff. I’ve been beyond frustrated lately with my serious commitment to the Insanity workouts (not joking here- cardio 6 days a week for 5 weeks now)… with no visible results. [...]

In a calamitous event on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 4th, 2010, the pitcher from the avocado green Hamilton Beach blender circa 1970-something suffered a fatal injury. I’m ashamed to admit that the blender pitcher/ sink faucet collision could have been avoided, and was purely a result of operator error. (Please don’t ask me to [...]

Yup… hated it. I know, I know, in the first month post I was all “Woo Hoo! Look at me!” Month two demonstrated how skilled I am in the art of justification, regardless of reason. Now month three is done and I appreciate your kindness in letting me just quietly sweep it under the rug. There [...]

See that tagline up top? ”The Ambitious Procrastinator”? Ever wondered what that’s really all about? Here’s your answer. Last month, I posted a day by day account of my attempts at getting in shape. How? Why? Well, I kept a daily log (for the most part) that was rather lengthy- and I pared that down [...]

Cringe verb 1 she cringed as he bellowed in her ear: cower, shrink, recoil, shy away,flinch, blench, draw back; shake, tremble, quiver, quail, quake. 2 it makes me cringe when I think of it: wince, shudder, squirm, feel embarrassed, feel mortified. The second entry is our focus today. None of those other words seem to properly convey what cringe does so succinctly. (Mortification is a good one as well, but it doesn’t have the same physical [...]

Email, 10:12 am From: kyle@thatgirlkyle.com To: Lisa@home tried a smoothie experiment today- only spinach, fruit and water into the blender. no oj, no yogurt. it’s good! very thick, but good. i like it with the yogurt, but i think i need to stop consuming it everyday. so, we’ll go a couple days without , and [...]

I present to you a brief follow up to the guest post My Green Thumb I wrote for my friend’s blog . If you’ve read it you’ll know I recently bought the awesome new book, Grow Great Grub, by Gayla Trail (who has a blog about gardening that I really enjoy) and I was all excited about [...]